Word: policeman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grim seriousness in a cartoon which appears in "Collier's" over the caption: "If everybody is going to play on the other side, it's too much to expect anyone to be enthusiastic about being 'It'." We see a crowd of American citizens rushing madly over a lone policeman; the members of the assemblage can be identified by numerous placards: "tax dodgers," "home brew," "anything is legal if you can get by," "gentlemanly violators of contracts," "unlawful corporation price fixing," "bootlegger," "speed law violator," and in the distance a sign that reads "Most Every body." Most everybody--is the public...
...pedestrians and automobilists, it provides a safety zone on which pedestrians can stand in order to board surface cars. If it were removed and a safety zone marked out, the automobilist would still be forced to go around the area as they do now. It acts as "tin-policeman" of a rather unusually heavy avoirdupois. Its removal, then, would not eliminate an obstruction to traffic unless the surface cars were diverted to other streets outside the Square...
There is obviously something unfair in the attitude that forces an instructor to impose petty requirements on a course in order to free it from the stigma of classification as a snap. The system is wrong that compels a professor to act toward his classes as a policeman continually watching for minor infringements of obscure ordinances that would never be necessary if the student could learn to interpret broadly and honestly the spirit of a few inclusive laws...
...fact of the matter is that Illinois finds herself in the peculiar position of the policeman who ought to arrest his brother but who hasn't the heart. The Honor System has existed for one year at that university and it is obvious from the recent occurrence that its position is by no means assured. Here again we find the system existing without the whole-hearted support of the upper classes. The students in the case were popular in university circles and one of them had recently been pledged to an honorary class society. When they were discovered cribbing...
...Woods: Policeman and Public...